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The End of Iran Sanctions Regime

Date: 13 March 2015 - 19:57

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

New reports confirm there are talks underway among the current members of the United Nations Security Council about the language of a resolution that would lift economic sanctions against Iran.

Western officials say they intend to move quickly to lift the illegal sanctions regime if an agreement between the P5+1 and Iran is reached. The resolution is designed to undercut the "suspicious” efforts by the U.S. Senate and the Zionist regime to sabotage any agreement reached, by making the lifting of sanctions legally binding under international law.

This is while the negotiations on the civilian nuclear deal are far from finished, and the deal remains speculative. Western officials are hoping to have a framework in place by month’s end, though.

If that framework comes to the fore, the warmongers on the Capitol Hill and their Zionist allies will no longer be able to celebrate December 23, which marks the anniversary of the first baseless UN Security Council sanction resolution against Iran over its peaceful and transparent nuclear program. The Security Council imposed eight rounds of illegal sanctions.

Yet after all these years, it is pretty much evident that the anti-Iran sanction resolutions were and still are short of scientific, technical, legal or justified virtues, and only endorsed by the member states under pressure and coercion.

Seeing the new development at the UN, though, the broader picture is: The overall U.S. strategy of containing Iran has failed in principle and the attempt to prolong an illegal sanctions regime only led to an erosion of U.S. strategic influence across Asia and the Middle East. In the interim, Washington's shortsighted containment policy only hurt Western businesses in the region, playing into the hands of rivals such as China and Russia, driving crucial allies away, and rendering Iran untouchable.

Now the warmongers seem to have realized the inherent failure of their containment approach. This unprecedented change suggests the realists in Washington have finally come to their senses. The reversal further acknowledges that the dual approach of sanctions and military threats produced nothing but America's own isolation and resentment among the international community.

Taken together, the far-reaching repercussions of the counter-productive sanctions and America's increasing isolation in the Middle East and Asia are best illustrated by the breakthrough on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline; the multi-billion-dollar Iran-Switzerland gas exports deal; the Iran-Gazprom energy deal; the good number of German and French firms now keen to invest in Iran or have already done so; the recent decision by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to consider Iran's bid for full membership in the Central Asian security group; the $100 billion Iran-China trade exchange; plus the European energy giants which deny media speculations that they have withdrawn their bids altogether to exploit Iran’s oil and gas fields and its lucrative consumer market.

As is, these positive developments deal a resounding blow to the delusory sanctions front the saber-rattling gang in Washington crafted to demonize and neutralize Iran. With what’s going on at the UN Security Council, it is now pretty much evident that the anti-Iran orchestra only isolated the United States, the Zionist regime and their duped allies.